What's it a charm for?' she asked.The man thought about this for a moment.'It's your basic all-enveloping protection charm,' he said, his hands describing a cupped circle in the air. 'For protection a...
The the glow become brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.A boy in the crowd gasped. 'She's a communist!'A girl who'd been sitting at Cab...
The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.
Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.
I have no doubt that you could have flung bricks by the hour in England's most densely populated districts without endangering the safety of a single girl capable of becoming Mrs. Augustus Fink-Nottle...
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
Got to say, dying would really wreck my best day. Been there, done that, and now that I think about it, Artemis forgot to give me the t-shirt.
Certainly, he was the only one in the room who'd actually engaged Dante in direct conversation and informed the Poet he was an ass.
Adina appealed to the sky. We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?Thank you, God, Petra said.
Mincemeat is decidedly British in its nature and can therefore be disregarded entirely where most civilized palates are concerned.
When a man is happy enough to win the affections of a sweet girl, who can soothe his cares with crochet, and respond to all his most cherished ideas with beaded urn-rugs and chair-covers in German woo...
Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries.
Always remember rule #6... don't take yourself so damn seriously
Hello, IT... Have you tried turning it off and on again?... OK, well, the button on the side. Is it glowing?... Yeah, you need to turn it on.... Err, the button turns it on.... Yeah, you do know how a...
Steven Fry on The Da Vinci Code-"It is complete loose stoolwater. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind.
I asked my publisher what would happen if he sold all the copies of my book he'd printed. He said "I'll just print another ten.
The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, th...
Remember the 11th commandment. Thou shalt not take thyself to damn seriously.
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
You're Ma's own blood son, but did she take on that time Tony Fontaine shot you in the leg? No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what ailed Tony's aim. Said she gues...